Paul Brigner (LAW ’05, MBA ’11) hasn’t been to class in a while, but it is not because he has been watching movies. Instead, he has been managing the film industry.

Brigner flew to Los Angeles on Tuesday to embark on his new role. He was appointed as senior vice president and chief technology officer for the Motion Picture Association of America on Jan. 10, according to Variety.

“I think that this chance to represent those great companies and all the great work that they do and the content that they produce is an exciting and fascinating opportunity,” Brigner said.

Since 2008, Brigner has attended the McDonough School of Business’ evening program while working at Verizon as their executive director for internet and technology policy. Though he has no experience in the film industry, Brigner hopes to carry his expertise in policy and technology issues over to his job at MPAA.

“It’s the perfect opportunity for someone like me, because this organization has had [chief technology officers] in the past but this role is [for a] chief technology policy officer because they wanted someone who had done pretty much what I did at Verizon,” Brigner said.

Brigner still plans to graduate in June despite his new position. After all, he has never let a full-time job stand in his way, graduating from Georgetown Law’s evening program in 2005 while working as a technical manager at Verizon.

“I realized I needed to diversify my skills and grow in my career and do something different, something that would be more challenging down the road,” Brigner said.

“I think a lot of people think I’m truly a glutton for punishment [for getting both a law and a business degree], but I’ve always felt that in my mind for my career I wanted to have both,” Brigner added. “I wanted to do something different … to have a more entrepreneurial and more business type of role but still [be] in the policy realm.”

Brigner attributes much of his successful career to his time at Georgetown.

“I certainly wouldn’t have this job if it weren’t for my experiences at Georgetown,” he said.

“Everyone I tell about going to Georgetown Law and the MBA program, they’re always extremely impressed.”

However, Brigner had to work hard to balance his academic work with his jobs and his family.

“It was always a bit of a struggle, it was never easy. For a good deal of the time I’ve been at school, I missed out on family obligations and all that goes along with it. It helps learning how to multitask, how to juggle a lot of different responsibilities,” he said. “It’s been a long road, going through two evening programs at Georgetown, but I couldn’t be happier about it.”

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Panelists discussed the political future of Latin America at a student-organized conference in the HFSC on Friday.

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (CAS ’57) delivered a guest lecture for 360 first-year law students in the Hart Auditorium at the Georgetown University Law Center’s McDonough Hall on Monday. He discussed his career, infamous dissents and originalist viewpoints.

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Graduate student goalkeeper Emma Newins played in her fourth consecutive NCAA tournament.

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Junior forward Grace Damaska scored the goal that tied the game and forced overtime in Georgetown’s loss to Hofstra in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

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Senior forward Brandon Allen was awarded the Big East tournament’s Most Outstanding Offensive Player honor following the Hoyas’ 2-1 victory over Creighton in the championship match.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a Democratic presidential candidate, addressed a Gaston Hall audience that could not accommodate all who started lining up before 6 a.m. Thursday.

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Scott Dikkers, founding editor and former editor-in-chief of The Onion, spoke to more than 300 students in the ICC Auditorium on Monday.

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The Mind-Body Medicine Program, which launched 13 years ago in the Georgetown University Medical Center, has expanded to undergraduates over the past few years, catering students in the School of Nursing and Health Studies and the School of Foreign Service who experience stress.

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All 95 Coca-Cola vending machines on the main campus and law center have been upgraded to be compatible with payments by credit card, Apple Pay or Google Wallet in addition to payments by cash and GoCard.